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Transgenic cows boost human insulin production by 10X (newatlas.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Next, could we boost diabetic people's insulin production?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Selectively breeding and cloning genetically modified humans, is kind of frowned upon...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. I'm thinking of CRISPR/Cas9 which is a genetic editing method, which is more ethical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Editing genes is incredibly complex. Changes to one gene can affect many seemingly unrelated systems. That's why they choose their targets very carefully.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And it can potentially work only for genetic decease. I'm not sure any type of diabetes would qualify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah type 1 is an immune response and type 2 is a lack of production.

So with 2 you could maybe up insulin production genetically. But that seems like a risky game haha